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Tbf the writing was on the wall a few weeks back when Carver came out and outlined the plans for the summer and then yesterday said he's planning on a change of captaincy for next season.

I'm sure some people forget that Pardew was a recently sacked League 1 manager with more relegations on his CV than trophies when he arrived and he is the calibre of manager we will attract under this regime so it'll be someone of similar ilk in the summer although Carver getting the gig still wouldn't surprise me providing he can guide us to the holy grail of 17th.

You're assuming that he hates you as much as you hate him. A fair assumption I would say. An ego-centric assumption, I'd say. Oh well, here goes. To be honest, the boycott all feels a bit naive. Similar to the Sack Pardew campaign - a howl of anger rather than anything constructive. We'll soon be appointing a permanent manager, and I'm wondering what any half-decent candidate is going to make of the club. Despite the campaigners' opinion of his ability, Pardew's standing in the game was reasonably good and will only have been enhanced by events at Palace. Candidates will have seen the guy driven out by supporters and may well think twice about putting themselves in the same position. Similarly any waverers are going to be concerned about harnessing themselves to an owner who is subject to a similar campaign. So altogether, I expect that - as with the results of the Pardew campaign - we'll end up in a worse position. Ashley had always had a piggybank attitude to spending money, and he's now got the club in a position where there's some surplus cash to spend. Personally, I'd like to see what he's prepared to do this summer. People will say that we're reached the same position before, but the situation now is a bit different, and will be an acid test of whether he's prepared to spend on the team or try to recoup his previous investment. If you're expecting a half decent candidate to come forward and want to take over as the next manager, working under Ashley and all the constraints that goes with it such as someone who knows nothing about football in Lee Charnley having a bigger say in who the club signs then they do and constantly having his best players sold without even having a say in the matter I'd suggest it's yourself who's the naive one.

You're assuming that he hates you as much as you hate him. A fair assumption I would say.

Tend to agree with you and hope you are right. The only thing I would say though is it's difficult to blame a cigarette as the cause of the fire if there's nobody in the stand.

Exactly. Gate receipts is our 2nd largest revenue stream so I can never understand it when people say it doesn't matter anymore because they get more telly money now.

Same here. Ordered a TV android box off eBay last week and it works a treat so I cancelled Sky on Tuesday. Next season no money going to NUFC or Sky and I feel much better for it.

It's more of a statement to stay away if you've already paid as well. Ashley is going to be sweating the more people who stay away even though it costs them money. why will ashley be sweating he literally will not give a damn Exactly, it's the TV revenue he's most interested in and those who stay away have already paid him anyway. He couldn't care less and will continue to do things his way as he always has done. Enjoy your 3 hours away from the missus. To be fair I get 12 hours away from her every day while we're at work anyway. Living the dream.

It's more of a statement to stay away if you've already paid as well. Ashley is going to be sweating the more people who stay away even though it costs them money. why will ashley be sweating he literally will not give a damn He might not be sweating but he will give a damn. I remember Llambias saying how important it was that the ground was full when they put on those cheap season tickets a few games into the 11/12 season when attendances had dipped and we still hadn't hit 50,000 at any of our first 5 home games. No way will he want his beloved Sports Direct logos illuminated around the pitch to a backdrop of empty seats. He didn't back then and he won't now.

Looks like around 40k sold so far plus whatever Spurs bring. If 15k season ticket holders stay away it'll be sub 30k. Our lowest ever PL crowd is just over 32k which was due to the reduced capacity when the Gallowgate was being rebuilt. In fact we are the only club in the history of the Premier League never to have had an attendance of under 30k. Manchester United had less than 30 k attendance in the past? They had a couple of 29,000 attendances in the 92/93 season v Ipswich and Crystal Palace iirc. Edited 29,736 v Crystal Palace. 31k v Ipswich.

Looks like around 40k sold so far plus whatever Spurs bring. If 15k season ticket holders stay away it'll be sub 30k. Our lowest ever PL crowd is just over 32k which was due to the reduced capacity when the Gallowgate was being rebuilt. In fact we are the only club in the history of the Premier League never to have had an attendance of under 30k.

It's less than that now. Around 33-34k I think. If you look at the stadium plan as soon as a match goes on members sale there's at least 15k spare seats to choose from not including the 3,200 greyed out for what the away team are entitled to.

Sad thing is it's that mentally shown by the likes of him why nothing will ever change and we'll just continue to drift along aimlessly, just a shell of a football club simply existing to force the Sports Direct brand into as many people Worldwide as possible. I've been watching NUFC since 1983 but if this latest protest doesn't get off the ground because the majority of the fans can't be bothered to miss one game that's on the telly anyway that's me done with it all. Season ticket won't be used again this season and isn't being renewed for next season. I'll find something else to do with my time and leave watching that shower to those who deserve it.

He's not on the wind up. Sadly there's plenty like him as well.

My god, you depress me. It'll be a huge embarrassment if it isn't an obvious boycott, tbh. The publicity it's been getting (now on FSF) has been considerable, so if the attendance is in the 40,000's we will look like complete fools. No way the attendance will be sub 40K. It was only sub 40K on a couple of occasions in the Championship man. People have paid for season tickets and match tickets, they aren't going to pay for them and then not go. Without even checking I can think of 5 or 6 sub 40k crowds in the Championship season. I'm a season ticket holder unhappy with the way the club is being run so I'm going to boycott Sunday. The likes of yourself have the club you deserve. Hope you enjoy many more years of nothingness, losing any decent talent we might have and getting our pants pulled down twice a year off the mackems. Ps if your home life is so miserable that you need to get out the house for a few hours maybe you should consider a divorce.

The thing is though we've had some pretty poor cup crowds recently (15k v Plymouth, 20k v Spurs ironically, and loads of others in the mid 20k's and a lot of those crowds were made up of kids who can't afford to go to the league games so there's probably only 10-12k max who literally can't miss a NUFC home game for whatever reason. I fear that come the day there'll be a lot of selfish bastards who will think well I've paid for my ticket so I'm going regardless. These aren't true fans in my opinion.

Remember it's down to everyone to ensure this is a success. I've managed to convince 2 season ticket holders from work who were planning on attending to boycott Spurs (it took some doing for one of them!) and I'm still working on another one who reckons he's still going. I'm going to show him that TF video on my phone later. If that doesn't work I'll have to threaten him.

Couldn't care less about the result so I won't give a prediction. Official attendance 47,259 Actual attendance 36,341

Added to that it's live in Sky so you can watch it anyway. People can still go out in the drink with their mates but just stop in the pub instead of watching that sh*t. It's hardly a chore missing one game that everyone can watch anyway in the grand scheme of things.

There's a thread on their forum mocking us for only taking 800 fans to Liverpool, with them congratulating themselves saying they'd take much more than that until about 6 pages in (aye a thread about our away following really did generate as much interest) mentions that they only took 714 to Anfield last season, not to mention the 619 to Goodison a few years previous. They really are a bunch of right thick tw@ts mind.

You could pick a team from the Conference, any one, and they would give Liverpool a harder game than they're getting tonight.

They won't go down. They were in a far worse position this time last season with even more difficult fixtures to play and stayed up. The 3 that's there now will more than likely go down but if one of them stops up it'll be at the expense of Hull.

Same here. 3 wins in 22, and in a relegation dogfight so let's organise a plane. Small time in the extreme and will cement what we've always known about them. Beating Newcastle is all that matters, the other 36 games are irrelevant. Glad we didn't go down this route when we were regularly beating them but it shows the difference in priorities between the two sets of fans.

It's the likes of you that the non boycotters need to be taking a look at. Well done sir! On the positive side there's still literally 1000's upon 1000's of unsold seats for Spurs which shows the uptake of general sale tickets has been very poor so if (and it's a big if) a lot if season ticket holders boycott it could look pretty sparse on telly.

Haha that's Paullys dad!